J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Standing Female Nude with Raised Right Arm, Seen from Behind c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Standing Female Nude with Raised Right Arm, Seen from Behind’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
A Standing Female Nude with Raised Right Arm, Seen from Behind c.1799–1805
D04916
Turner Bequest LXXXI 15
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 436 x 271 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and ‘VI’
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study may show a model posed as the mythical princess Andromeda chained to the rock; compare a similar subject in the Academical sketchbook (Tate D01819, D01820; Turner Bequest XLIII 3a, 4). The subject is strikingly similar to a drawing by Thomas Stothard (1755–1834) in the Royal Academy collection (RA 05/3071); Stothard was a visitor at the Life Class in 1799, 1800, 1803 and 1804, in any of which years this drawing might have been made. See also folio 5 recto (D04910; Turner Bequest LXXXI 9).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Standing Female Nude with Raised Right Arm, Seen from Behind c.1799–1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-standing-female-nude-with-raised-right-arm-seen-from-r1178120, accessed 19 April 2024.